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TOT: Love, Dating and Relationships

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Over the course of our “Theology On Tap” series we heard talks from Fr. Matt Spahr, Cy Kellett and Dr. Karen Saroki. This Thursday the series was brought to a close by the ever-popular Jackie Francois.

Actually, Jackie wasn’t the only one who spoke that night, being supported by her boyfriend Bobby Angel:

Jackie Francois is a full-time, travelling worship leader and speaker from Orange County. Bobby Angel, her boyfriend, is the assistance campus minister at the Servite High School in Anaheim. 

Both of them have studied at the Theology Of The Body institute. They enjoy lengthy books, long walks on the beach, quoting The Office* and preparing together for the imminent robot invasion…

Below is the recording of the talk they gave entitled “Love, dating and relationships: Calling all people wanting to love and be loved according to God’s holy desire”:

                                                            
Jackie Francois & Bobby Angel – Main Talk            Jackie Francois & Bobby Angel – Q&A

Jackie also recently released a follow-up to her debut album “Your Kingdom Is Glorious”.  The new album is called “Divine Comedy”. It includes a cover of one my favourite Hughes songs, “Beautiful One”, as well as Jackie’s own material, “Everything You” and “New Creation” being among my favourites.

Go buy it on iTunes or Spirit & Song 🙂

* The TV show, not the Liturgy of the Hours. I got quite confused there for a while…:-/

“Bears”? 2 Kinds 2:24
“Beets”? Genesis 1:29
“Battlestar Galactica”? erm….

TOT: How to live the single life

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Karen SarokiYesterday we had another “Theology On Tap” session at Phil’s BBQ. In previous weeks we’ve heard from Fr. Matt Spahr and Cy Kellett and this week our speaker was Dr. Karen Saroki:

Aug 7: “What is your purpose? What is your call?”
Learning to listen to God’s voice and follow it. -Fr. Matt Spahr

Aug 14: “Citizens and Disciples”
Voting your conscience! What does that look like?- Cy Kellett

Aug 21: “How to live the single life AND meet Mr/Mrs Right”
Living the single life according to God’s will.- Karen Saroki

Aug 28th: “Love, dating and relationships”
Calling all people wanting to love and be loved according to God’s holy desire.” – Jackie Francois

Here’s Karen’s biography:

Dr. Karen Saroki received her medical training at University of Michigan Medical School in 2005 and she is now a family doctor at Culture of Life Family Services. She is one of six children and is the sister of Fr. Anthony Saroki, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and also has another brother in seminary. She is an avid hiker.

Here’s the audio:

Main Talk (Download)

Q&A (Download)

 

Theology On Tap

(The intro/outro music is Public Domain and available here)

Dateless: Something Something Relationships

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Last week I wrote a short post saying that I was soon going to try and tackle a question I often hear asked among my female friends:

“Why doesn’t that nice Catholic boy ask me out?” 

I wrote that blog entry announcement partially to ensure that I didn’t chicken out! The subject of relationships and dating is tricky and it’s inevitable that many people would not agree with my conclusions. I’ve tried to do this series a couple of times before but I always managed to find something else to do instead. By publicly saying that I’m going to do it, I’m making sure that I actually will…

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